We were alerted to some of these messages in the log files and found a page where some CERT folks described discovering a root hack on their box and these messages in the log files. None of their other symptoms seems present on my box, though I do have a decent number of these NOQUEUE messages, sometimes saying from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and other times with ip addresses or resolved hosts... I have sendmail: LOCAL in my hosts.allow and ALL: ALL in hosts.deny, so I'm wondering how to better prevent what looks like failing connections to my sendmail server, maybe I'm just confused though.. thanks for any insight. -l